2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

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	American Nigga Zoo Misty Sol and Charly Brownskin ANZ is good Negro Art US Census classified. Our theatrical menagerie of mostly trained animals will distract you from your own disasters! We've got pygmies, Eskimos, Hottentots, and others on loan from the World's Fairs. Be entertained by the Other's pain. Come be captivated by the captivity of the third world!
	Changing Places COSACOSA art at large, Inc. Change happens. The universe inclines to chaos. In a world where random acts of chance obstruct our force of will, how can we sustain our power and purpose? Choreographer Adaobi Kanu explores individual and communal transformation through movement, images, and stories collected from residents of ten very different Philadelphia neighborhoods.
	Constants Movement Brigade All performances are FREE, however reservations are required! For reservations, visit http://www.movementbrigade.org/upcoming-events.html . www.movementbrigade.org.
	Cuddle Magic Cuddle Magic & Philadelphia's Magic Gardens Cuddle Magic performs acoustic avant-pop songs with rhythmic sophistication and a lush instrumental palette. This special performance will weave visual projections and choreography around the band's quirky compositions to take full advantage of the Magic Gardens' singular and beautiful outdoor space.
	Dance Live Arts Lucinda Childs with music by Philip Glass and film by Sol LeWitt Three masters of minimalism, choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, collaborated to construct this seminal work of dance—one of the purest examples of interdisciplinary art-making ever created. An exploration of musical movement, rhythm, and harmony, Dance is a bold statement on the very nature of movement.
	Dirty Dozen the Field/ Philadelphia 12 Artists/ 5 Cities/ 2 Shows featuring dance, music, and hybrid performance works like you've never seen before by Field artists from DC, NY, NJ, Miami, and Philly. The Dirty Dozen will knock your socks off and get your feet in the dirt where art grows. Art grows here.
	FACTORY Rev9 Dance and Performance Company Twenty performing artists bring Andy Warhol’s Factory to life through a cutting edge production combining dance, acrobatics, aerial work, and multimedia. Watch Warhol’s world of art, sex, and glamour unfold in this compelling glimpse into an artistic movement that influenced generations to come.
	Festival Plus Live Arts Dance by Lucinda Childs Through a film series, lecture, moderated discussion, and a master class, Festival Plus programming for Dance offers audiences a deeper insight into the artist and her work.
	Flash! Yes! And...'s SHADOW Company A flashmob performance: What happens when a spontaneous celebration suddenly turns violent? See high school artists' reactions as they take a provocative look at recent events. Multiple-media, movement, and storytelling tell the tale of what happens when people mob and what misconceptions drive public panic. Presented by Yes! And...'s Shadow Company.
	GO FRINGE YOURSELF! SQUIRM I am woman. Milk, water, womb, vagina I will even when you say I won't I can, even when you say I can't I give milk, when you are dry Milk, water, womb, vagina. Woman.
	Goose Feathers: Nursery Rhymes for kids over 18! KineticArcitecture Esteemed photographer Alan Kolc and Burlesque & Butoh’s love-child, choreographer Rob Davidson (“His perky tutu and nipple rings did the trick,”New York Times), team for this sensual exhibition/performance. Kolc and KineticArchitecture use beloved rhymes to explore identity, acceptance, and snack time! To read blog articlse about this show, click here.
	Gravity Theater InMovement Dance, Green Chair Dance Group, Amanda Varone An intimate space transformed to question the principles of gravity through the eyes of multiple artists. Dance, gymnastics, acroyoga, theater, film, and music will all be incorporated into this kinetic performance. Enter the world of Gravity Theater for your own up close physical experience.
	habitat (de)fragmentation COH eNsemble:Creatures of Habitat Physical Poetry Performance Group A collage of seven physical poems that investigate spaces that divide and connect. Four women highly influenced by a psyche we share with nature launch the viewer into a holographic transformative journey using choice substances—darkness, dance, declaration, impression, and light—and reclaiming the rites formerly known as passage. www.fertileuniverse.com.
	In Constant Perfection Intuititive Transformations List 100 things you love. Those things inspired this collectively created performance. Honest, fun, and vulnerable, this interactive show demands joy and makes love with dance, original and live music, improv, and audio/video installations. This tight ensemble creates an invocation in riveting form that exposes something happy and awesome.
	Insectinside Grounded Aerial A visceral play, dance concert, and aerial spectacle! The audience will catapult into our whirlwind fantasyland of flying wasps, fireflies, and a towering praying mantis. As we interact and perform among you, there is surprise and depth in this raw yet sensual love story. To read blog articles about this show, click here. Please Note Times for Insectinside have changed.
	¡EL CONQUISTADOR! Live Arts Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental In a small Colombian village, Polonio Castro, a poor coffee farmer, is hooked on telenovelas (Latin American soap operas) when civil war and daily lottery losses force him to flee to the big city. He arrives in Bogotá with his potted plant and the dream of becoming a telenovela star; but instead finds a job as a doorman in a high-rise apartment building.
	Let Go of the Ego charm/strange experience The charm/strange experience blends music and art to create a moving journey about living in harmony, moment to moment. Live piano and projected drawings rhythmically vibrate on a cosmic odyssey exploring underwater, outer space, and deep within. A dazzling multisensory experience.
	Lynch Quietly Represented Theatre Company Set in a hospital haunted by the ghosts of a lynch mob, this piece utilizes folklore and oral histories to confront the legacy of one America's darkest secrets. Teaming with choreographer Charles Tyson, Lynch Quietly blends movement, video, historical text, and fictional characters in a surreal and sobering theatrical experience. Please Note Dates and times for Lynch Quietly have been changed.
	Man Bites Dog Louis DeVaughn Nelson Sensationalism in the media is a result of cultural evolution around the globe. Technology bombards us with hidden messages through advertising, journalism, and entertainment, striking us with an overbearing sensory overload. Man Bites Dog is a new multidisciplinary satire by artist Louis DeVaughn Nelson exploring these issues.
	Potential is Not Reality Rita Lynn and the Found Objects What’s in the box? These things are not what they seem. Nurses, teachers, students, salesmen, musicians, and artists creating a common reality of expressive performance art. Five shows, 200 boxes made from everyday objects, movement, sculpture, improvisation, sound, silence, an element of surprise. All ticket holders take home a box.
	Rosa de la Alhambra Duende Flamenco Fusion Band Inspired by Washington Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra and the gypsy-themed poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Duende Flamenco Fusion illuminates the history and folklore of flamenco in Spain, from its multicultural medieval past up to the present, with a captivating mix of music, dance, and storytelling.
	Seal Moon Rocky and Friends A grey seal becomes both a metaphor for loss and a means of redemption in this story of a family's silence and the dance workshop on a California beach that ended it. Using poetry, sign-language, music, and movement, Wilson honors a brother it took him over 30 years to acknowledge.
	Spill Sarah Mitteldorf A group of circus artists, dancers, and actors exploring how human limitation really is human potential. Fully human. Because, when we reach that point, even without tipping, we spill out our artistry, our own connected identity. Stories about people facing the bounds of their own existence. We want to spill.
	The Waiting Room Green Light Arts Waiting rooms stink. Unless you’re in Green Light's Waiting Room, waiting to explore the feminine principles that nurture the world. Join us and be part of the most exciting ensemble of women artists in Philly. We promise that you’ve never been in a waiting room like ours.
	This Art Burning Ellen Fishman-Johnson This Art Burning is a staged performance featuring new explorations in setting poetry through video, spoken word, musical accompaniment, opera, and song. This multimedia event brings together a group of collaborations between two distinguished award-winning artists, composer and new media artist Ellen Fishman-Johnson and poet Michael Heller.
	Untitled Project #213 Jenn Rose/Steve Pacek/Dan Kazemi Untitled Project #213 is a sad clown, and the fascination of a psychiatrist who is studying mutes. But what makes #213 so sad, and is happiness still possible? The journey for answers travels through memories of dance, music, poetry, images, and emotion to a time before his words went missing.
	Whose City? Media Mobilizing Project Art & Culture Collective Whose city is Philadelphia? Is it the downtown or the neighborhoods, the corporations in skyscrapers, or the families in row homes? Whose City? is a collage of visual art, poetry, and music presenting the struggle for Philadelphia by people who live, work, and play here.
	You Are Me Rose Luardo and Joanna S. Quigley Internal Landscapes / Group Feelings 5 c. Human Beings 1/4 TBSP free associative theatrics 1 oz. meow mameow 2 wigs (diced) Fold in commonalities and dissidents. Let ingredients congeal for 45 minutes. Please Note Run Time and Ticket Price for You Are Me have changed.